Monday, July 7, 2014

MP3 REVIEW: Pedestrian Deposit “Eleventh Hour”

The
fact that this is two tracks and each of the tracks is just under the fifteen
minute mark makes me believe that it was once a thirty minute cassette, but
nothing on the Bandcamp page leads me to believe that and I don’t really feel
like snooping around Discogs right now.
(Okay, so a quick search on Discogs shows that this was in fact released
on cassette by Pedestrian Deposit themselves)

So
what would be Side A opens with drone with abbreviated crackling loops. It has a ukulele perhaps, and just some other
forms of classical type strings coming through. There is some radio static and it reminds me
of somewhere between “A Small World” (You know, the Disney one) and the horror
movie franchise of “Saw”. It is building and orchestral, like a surging
storm and I love it just based on this part.

The
second track has heavy wind static drone open us up, then we get some ambient
tones. This gives into crashing booms
and it seems robotic before the pretty strings come back and there is another
sound almost like horse feet clopping.

Within
these storms and other beauties, I do feel as if there is a story being
told. I want nothing more than to put
this into my tape player, put my earbuds in and have it take me wherever it
should so choose.